Download or read book Singapore s Foreign Policy written by Kawin Wilairat and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1975-12-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the major aspects of Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations Prior to Independence (1959-65), the Policy of Survival in the first decade (1965-75) and Regional Policy: Reconstruction of Global and regional Interests. With a brief conclusion and 7 tables.
Download or read book US Singapore Relations 1965 1975 written by Daniel Wei Boon Chua and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore demonstrated the interplay between America’s strategy of containment and Singapore’s efforts at a non-aligned foreign policy. But there is a deeper story. American involvement in the Vietnam War not only held back the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, but also catalysed economic and strategic cooperation between the United States and Singapore. The author argues that Singapore might not have achieved its success so rapidly without the support of the US. As the war in Vietnam raged on, Singapore became a critical refueling point, also providing ship and aircraft repair for the US military. Commercial and strategic support from the United States lifted Singapore out of the economic doom predicted for the city-state after secession from Malaysia, cessation of Indonesian trade during Konfrontasi and Britain’s military withdrawal. By considering the importance of the US’s role in Singapore’s nation-building, this book provides an important supplement to the well-trodden narrative that attributes Singapore’s success to good governance.
Download or read book A History of Modern Singapore 1819 2005 written by C.M. Turnbull and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When C.M. Turnbull's A History of Singapore, 1819-1975 appeared in 1977, it quickly achieved recognition as the definitive history of Singapore. A second edition published in 1989 brought the story up to the elections held in 1988. In this fully revised edition, rewritten to take into account recent scholarship on Singapore, the author has added a chapter on Goh Chok Tong's premiership (1990-2004) and the transition to a government headed by Lee Hsien Loong. The book now ends in 2005, when the Republic of Singapore celebrated its 40th anniversary as an independent nation. Major changes occurred in the 1990s as the generation of leaders that oversaw the transition from a colony to independence stepped aside in favour of a younger generation of leaders. Their task was to shape a course that sustained the economic growth and social stability achieved by their predecessors, and they would be tested towards the end of the decade when Southeast Asia experienced a severe financial crisis. Many modern studies on Singapore focus on current affairs or very recent events and pay a great deal of attention to Singapore's successful transition from the developing to the developed world. However, younger historians are increasingly interested in other aspects of the country's past, particularly social and cultural issues. A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005 provides a solid foundation and an overarching framework for this research, surveying Singapore's trajectory from a small British port to a major trading and financial hub within the British Empire and finally to the modern city state that Singapore became after gaining independence in 1965.
Download or read book Between 2 Oceans 2nd Edn written by Malcolm H. Murfett and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singapore written by Jason Lim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 9 August 2015, Singapore celebrated its 50th year of national independence, a milestone for the nation as it has overcome major economic, social, cultural and political challenges in a short period of time. Whilst this was a celebratory event to acknowledge the role of the People’s Action Party (PAP) government, it was also marked by national remembrance as founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew died in March 2015. This book critically reflects on Singapore’s 50 years of independence. Contributors interrogate a selected range of topics on Singapore’s history, culture and society – including the constitution, education, religion and race – and thereby facilitate a better understanding of its shared national past. Central to this book is an examination of how Singaporeans have learnt to adapt and change through PAP government policies since independence in 1965. All chapters begin their histories from that point in time and each contribution focuses either on an area that has been neglected in Singapore’s modern history or offer new perspectives on the past. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, it presents an independent and critical take on Singapore’s post-1965 history. A valuable assessment to students and researchers alike, Singapore: Negotiating State and Society, 1965-2015 is of interest to specialists in Southeast Asian history and politics.
Download or read book 50 Years Of Urban Planning In Singapore written by Chye Kiang Heng and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into three parts, the first section of the volume, 'Paradigms, Policies, and Processes', provides an overview of the ideologies and strategies underpinning urban planning in Singapore; the second section, 'The Built Environment as a Sum of Parts', delves into the key land use sectors of Singapore's urban planning system; and the third section, 'Urban Complexities and Creative Solutions', examines the challenges and considerations of planning for the Singapore of tomorrow. The volume brings together the diverse perspectives of practitioners and academics in the professional and research fields of planning, architecture, urbanism, and city-making.
Download or read book The Diplomatic Service List written by Great Britain. Diplomatic Service Administration Office and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book US EnergySecurity Interests in the Indian Ocean written by M. Rajaretnam and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1975 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the US interests in the Indian Ocean from the perspective of the changing strategic environment in the wake of the American military withdrawal from the Southeast Asian mainland. Explores possibilities of increasing tension and in patrols. With 2 maps, 4 tables, 4 charts.
Download or read book Southeast Asia in China s Foreign Policy written by Joseph A. Camilleri and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1975 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention will be paid not so much on China's relations with individual Southeast Asian countries, as on the role and importance of the region in China's overall foreign policy. The intention is to highlight certain general themes rather than present a detailed analysis of evolving bilateral relationships. Southeast Asia cannot of course be considered as a unified or homogenous entity. In fact, its special relevance to Chinese foreign policy lies not simply in its proximity to China, but especially in the variety of political systems and diplomatic alignments which it compromises. As a microcosm of the international system, Southeast Asia reflects China's policies and attitudes not only to the regional subsystem but also to the Third World as a whole and to the global balance of power.
Download or read book Coalition Behaviour in Modern Thai Politics written by Somporn Sangchai and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1976 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of recent politics and politicians given from an insight uniquely Thai. Describes the behaviour in political circles conforming to Thai sociological patterns. Repudiates certain foreign sociological concepts of Thai behaviour.
Download or read book Economic and Political Trends in Southeast Asia written by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1973 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers and Proceedings of a Seminar organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
Download or read book Politics and Industrialization in Late Imperial China written by Wellington K.K. Chan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1975 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the early phase of Chinese industrial efforts to demonstrate that Chinese political values significantly and assuredly affected the way modern industry was promoted and developed. Both values and environment can change, and it is their interaction that determines some specific ideological content and thrust.
Download or read book The Future of Portuguese Timor written by J. Stephen Hoadley and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1975 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the three mutually exclusive possibiities for Portuguese Timor: continued associations with Portugal, emergence as an independent state and amalgamation with Indonesia.
Download or read book Displaced Intellectuals in Twentieth Century China written by I.W. Mabbett and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1975-04-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twofold purpose of this paper is to survey the factors affecting intellectual displacement in China during the twentieth century and to suggest speculatively a scheme of analysis of social change in modern China into which the role of displaced intellectuals fits as an important, but not as an omnipotent, element. With 4 tables.
Download or read book ASEAN written by Hans H. Indorf and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1975 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the ASEAN Organization, tracing its development from inception in 1968 to 1975. Includes discussion of the political climate, the various comittees, the National Secretariat and the ASEAN modus operandi
Download or read book Political Violence in the Muslim Provinces of Southern Thailand written by M. Ladd Thomas and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1975 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper attempts to examine the causes and manifestations of, as well as the governmental response to, the political unrest in the Muslim provinces of Southern Thailand. The Thai government is argued to have been slow in perceiving the seriousness of the problem and that the success of governmental response would depend on if the government enforces the 'right mix' of force with other measures - for instance if the economic development programes will be well planned, adequately funded and properly administered, and whether government agencies do indeed accommodate the special Muslim requirements.
Download or read book The Five Power Defence Arrangements and AMDA written by Chin Kin Wah and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1974-07-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postwar years in Southeast Asia have witnessed the spawning of a variety of defence agreements and frameworks, with perhaps the loosest of them being the Five Power Defence Arrangements involving Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore. This paper attempts to unravel the nature of this arrangement and trace its evolution from the Anglo-Malaysian Defence Agreement (AMDA).
